Puffer Genealogy

MILES, Daniel Curtis

MILES, Daniel Curtis[1, 2]

Male 1827 - 1912  (84 years)

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  • Name MILES, Daniel Curtis 
    Birth 21 Jun 1827  Westminster, MA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Gender Male 
    _COLOR 11 
    Death 23 Feb 1912  Washington, DC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Burial Westminster, MA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Address:
    Woodside Cemetery 
    Person ID I16405  Puffers
    Last Modified 17 Mar 2021 

    Father MILES, Daniel C.,   b. 19 May 1799, MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 1875 (Age 75 years) 
    Mother CURTIS, Mary,   b. 10 May 1802, MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Dec 1875, Westminster, MA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 73 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1826 
    Family ID F7958  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family PUFFER, Lucy Ann,   b. 25 Aug 1828, Ashburnham, MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 9 Feb 1869 (Age 40 years) 
    Marriage 2 May 1851  Westminster, MA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4
    Children 
     1. MILES, Mary Josephine,   b. 11 Dec 1852, Westminster, MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 12 Dec 1934, Pasadena, CA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 82 years)
     2. MILES, George Melville,   b. 25 Oct 1854, Westminster, MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 Jan 1935, Portland, OR Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 80 years)
     3. MILES, Herbert Judson,   b. 5 Jun 1856, Westminster, MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Jul 1929, Park, MT Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 73 years)
     4. MILES, Arthur Wellington,   b. 20 Jun 1859, Westminster, MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1933, Los Angeles, CA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 73 years)
     5. MILES, Martha Gertrude,   b. 23 Apr 1865, Westminster, MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 May 1880 (Age 15 years)
    Family ID F8752  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 17 Mar 2024 

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  • Notes 
    • For many years a national bank examiner, brother of General Nelson A. Miles. He engaged in the lumber business and manufacture of chairs. He was president of the Westminster National Bank; selectman, assessor, overseer of the poor, auditor of the town; served on the school committee. He was for 20 years superintendent of the Sunday School of the Baptist Church.

      When his brother-in-law, Edward James Puffer, fell in battle at Gettysburg, he returned to that battle sight to retrieve his body which had lain in a battlefield grave. Be brought the body back on the first train that left Gettysburg after the battle to be reinterred in MA. (Biographical Review of Worcester County, MA, Volume XXX, 1899)

  • Sources 
    1. [S2] Descendants of George Puffer of Braintree, Massachusetts 1639-2020, Red Letter Edition, 192-193.

    2. [S1314] Biographical Review of Worcester County, MA, Volume XXX, 1899, page 117.

    3. [S1314] Biographical Review of Worcester County, MA, Volume XXX, 1899.

    4. [S2] Descendants of George Puffer of Braintree, Massachusetts 1639-2020, Red Letter Edition, 192.